Self Managed Superannuation Funds
Self Managed Superannuation Funds (“SMSFs”) are now the favoured choice of retirement savings vehicle for people looking to do their own thing. But a SMSF is much more than a super fund that lets its members choose their own investments. SMSFs are a powerful wealth creation vehicle to maximise a person’s retirement income and hence their lifestyle. They can offer substantial rewards for their members including greater control of investments, better tax efficiency, greater flexibility, potential cost savings, the ability to structure their own superannuation and a highly tax effective estate planning tool.

But many SMSFs are failing to realise these benefits. For example, the 1999 Rainmaker Information survey of SMSFs reported that the returns of many SMSFs are below those of commercial super funds. Primarily these poor returns were due to poor asset allocation and overweight holdings in low returning assets such as cash and fixed interest. These findings have been confirmed by the ATO’s recently released preliminary statistics for SMSFs.

Portfolio Managers specialises in advising trustees of SMSFs. Our SMSF service allows you to make the most of what a SMSF has to offer. Our main objective in designing our SMSF service, was to ensure that our clients were able to take best advantage of their SMSF so they achieve their financial goals.

Free Self Managed Super Fund Kit
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Superannuation
Given that we have no affiliation with any fund managers or product providers we are in the position to objectively review your current superannuation arrangements and make a recommendation as to whether you should stay invested where you are or rollover your funds to another superannuation provider.

Whether your funds are invested in an industry fund, mastertrust, corporate superannuation plan or retail fund we will assess the suitability of your current funds and compare them to the market. You will then be in a position to make an informed decision of where to invest your superannuation monies to maximise your benefit at retirement.

Corporate Superannuation
As the name implies, these funds are primarily designed to accept funds made by employers on behalf of employers as part of their obligations under the superannuation Guarantee legislation whereby statutory percentages of each employee’s salary is contributed the employee’s member account.

Choice of fund has increase the pressure on the business’ and the time spent on administration by your payroll staff is increasing. Establishing a Corporate Superannuation fund can assist in streamlining contribution.